And You Want To Tax MY "Hard Earned" Money?

       I become a CEO for a large company, then to make it more “profitable", I lay off 500 people that make $50K/year, each, and put the rest of the employees on a salary so I can make them work overtime without extra pay to make up for the employees that are gone. Then I call all the employees for a meeting and sadly announce the cuts, stating that if the employees do not sacrifice and work harder there may be some more lay offs. 

Since I "saved" the company $25M, and I get a 30% of every dollar I save the company, I get a cool $7.5M bonus and the owner gets the other $17.5M.

The government gives these 500 jobless people $1,000/mo. for 6 months, for a total of $3M, mostly, from our own taxes. The Democrats try to extend their unemployment benefits to 9 months, but the Republicans cry foul, stating that "they are just lazy people looking for more handouts".

I go home and see in the news that Obama is trying to increase taxes on my hard earned money, how dare him! Dirty, lazy socialist! What is our country coming to? Trying to increase taxes on us, hard working people to support the lazy poor! Then I donate $1M to the Republican party. They are the only “decent” people that will help me protect my “hard earned” money.

Then I go on a shopping spree. I buy a 5th mansion and a couple of Mercedes Benz and a Corvette. My other 6 cars are no longer exciting. I take my family to Hawaii to celebrate and spend $50K in 5 days there. What is $50K when I can make $7.5M almost instantly? I am such a genius!

Upon our return, I take my family to church to thank the Lord for my great fortune. Then I donate $1,000 to my church, because I am a good and charitable Christian, that is why God rewards me often.

Well, since the fun is over, I have to get back to work. I call my broker so I can invest my hard earned cash, and he tells me he has some information about a loan default crisis in the make, reminding me that I did not hear this from him, as it is considered inside trader information and is against the law. Then he advises me to invest $5M on gold. A week later the loan default crisis is a reality, gold goes up 20% and I just made another $1M!! Life is so sweet.

A year later I get an offer from another company, I switch jobs, and lay off 2,000 employees each making $45K/year and move the operations to China. I save the company $90M and get a cool $15M plus stock options worth $10M for 10 years. I am so sly!

(Now, again, the government gives these 2,000 jobless "lazy" people $1,000/mo. for 6 months, for a total of $12M, from our own taxes.)

What about the people that no longer have a job? Well, that is not my problem, I am doing business legally. If these people did not work hard and are not wealthy, that is their fault, not mine. I am not breaking the law. I am also looking out for the interests of our investors. Besides, if I don't do it, somebody else will, right?

I went to college for 4 years and worked 50 hours a week for 5 years and then became a CEO. I deserve all the millions I make, don't I?
What? You went to college for 6 years and have been working 50 hours for the last 10 years, and you are not rich? And you ask me why?
Well, very simple my friend, you have a conscience and I don't.

 

 

This status was borrowed from my facebook friend Jaime Rodriguez. I want to thank him for letting me share it. I've read it twice and my stomach is in knots. The capitalist right wingers see NOTHING wrong with this vulture, they think it's totally legal and give the fuck high fives for his ability to fuck over the little guy, the HARD WORKER who never gets ahead because of scum like this asshole. Can you tell I'm pissed? I despise anyone who defends this way of getting ahead, this is NOT hard work it's thievery....

Please GOP, make our day....

....."Certainly, as Cruz acknowledges, the public outcry over the shutdown was difficult for Republicans. (He mostly attributes this to Clinton’s superior political skills.) But he glosses over the fact that the shutdown sped Clinton on the path to reelection. Indeed, the shutdown played a role in a rather amazing suckerpunch at the 1996 State of the Union address.

During the speech, Clinton singled out for praise a man seated next to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton — Social Security Administration worker Richard Dean, who had survived the Oklahoma City bombing and rescued three people from the devastated Murrah Federal Building.

As Republicans stood and applauded Dean’s heroism, Clinton pulled out the knife, recounting how Dean was forced out of his office during the first shutdown and had to work without pay in the second one. “Never, ever, shut the federal government down again,” the president scolded.

(Then-House Minority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was so upset at Clinton’s gambit that he rewatched the speech on C-SPAN at 1:30 a.m. and literally screamed at the television, according to the 1997 book “Mirage,” by George Hager and Eric Pianin.)

After that, Clinton never lagged in the polls again."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/ted-cruzs-claim-that-the-1995-96-government-shutdown-was-good-for-the-gop/2013/08/03/9cd6085e-fbbe-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_blog.html

My guy, my guy..Talkin' bout myyyyyGuy!!!

Obamacare will NOT be defunded, fuck off teabaggers!

Well folks, here we are once again, facing a government shutdown if President Obama's LAW, the ACA, is not on the chopping block!  The teabagging caucus of obstructionist clowns are once again DEMANDING, with arms folded across chests and pacifiers in their mouths, that Congress defund Obamacare. EVEN though this is IMPOSSIBLE because it is not discretionary spending, but why let dumb facts like that stop dumb people from still DEMANDING it? Pussy faced dumb ass John Boner is caving to the baggers, he is a putrid disgrace and ALL of them need to be removed from OUR government in 2014! VOTE PEOPLE. VOTE!!!

Now for a piece of sanity....
Congressional Scholar Norm Ornstein..."What is going on now to sabotage Obamacare is not treasonous—just sharply beneath any reasonable standards of elected officials with the fiduciary responsibility of governing…
[T]o do everything possible to undercut and destroy its implementation — which in this case means finding ways to deny coverage to many who lack any health insurance; to keep millions who might be able to get better and cheaper coverage in the dark about their new options; to create disruption for the health providers who are trying to implement the law, including insurers, hospitals, and physicians; to threaten the even greater disruption via a government shutdown or breach of the debt limit in order to blackmail the president into abandoning the law; and to hope to benefit politically from all the resulting turmoil—is simply unacceptable, even contemptible. One might expect this kind of behavior from a few grenade-throwing firebrands. That the effort is spearheaded by the Republican leaders of the House and Senate — even if Speaker John Boehner is motivated by fear of his caucus, and McConnell and Cornyn by fear of Kentucky and Texas Republican activists — takes one’s breath away."


 A Fox news poll finds a majority of Republicans favor the ACA over Obamacare....smfh

Minimum wage debate...

  My cousin and I got into a conversation about the minimum wage and the plight of the fast food worker, she said McDonalds burger flippers should make 16.00 dollars an hour. I disagreed with her only because I thought it should mean there would have to be a restructuring of all wages, in all jobs across the country. How can a burger flipper make as much as a teacher with a masters? She said yes, all wages must go up! So where do we start? We have to realize fast food workers are not just teenagers any more, they are men and women supporting children and paying mortgages. Yes, fast food workers MUST picket, the minimum wage Must be raised, We can not let ourselves turn into a Third World nation with slave labor wages! Exactly what the Republicans and their ilk desire...

The rich didn't get rich through hard labor, their first million was most likely inherited and subsequent millions were made by the sweat and tears of their EMPLOYEES!! When is it OUR turn to reap the benefits of hard work? Those delusional Righties who continue to defend the 1% and their millions need to stop the masochistic thinking! McDonalds and Walmart are not gonna close their doors because there is a minimum wage hike! People are not gonna lose their jobs because there is a minimum wage hike! It will mean MORE money circulating around the country, the middle class SPENDS their paychecks, they don't stash extra cash in the Cayman's!

When workers make a living wage they can take care of themselves and their families without help from state and government programs. It's really not that hard to understand. But the 1% simply likes it the way it is, they spend millions lobbying  Washington to keep the minimum wage LOW.  And the wingnut lies just keep on and on...trickle down, it's a LIE. The poor are getting poorer and the Rich are getting Insanely Richer.....Nothing is gonna change. The Right wingers are blind sheep, heading for a life in a cardboard box, they'll just blame Obama....

  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-12/mcdonald-s-8-25-man-and-8-75-million-ceo-shows-pay-gap.html

Bloggy update...

Hi Bloggy friends, hope everyone is being good, I have missed the ones who I don't see every day on facebook!

So, lets see, we're having a beautiful Spring here in NJ, yesterday the AC was on, today it's cool and rainy! Been working on a new garden project, flowers are huge this year because of the weather! Hope you are having nice weather in your part of the country!

A lot going on in politics, big story is the tornado in Oklahoma and whether or not the GOP will send aid without first finding ways to cut programs that help the poor and middle class...fuckers. I did a little post on facebook, said this;

WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! THESE STORMS ARE GONNA KEEP HAPPENING, THERE WILL BE NATURAL DISASTERS IN EVERY STATE, BUT THE GOP WILL FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL TO KEEP YOU FROM GETTING HELP FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT WHEN YOU MOST NEED IT!! DO NOT FORGET, THAT MONEY FOR AID IS OUR MONEY, THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT A CORPORATION, IT RUNS ON OUR MONEY!!!! THE GOP WILL DO NOTHING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE BECAUSE THEY SIMPLY BELIEVE THESES STORMS, FLOODS, EARTHQUAKES AND FIRES ARE PROPHESY!!! VOTE THEM OUT BEFORE THEY DESTROY US ALL!!

Two friends I've known since they were little girls unfriended me, accusing me of being heartless and sick!! LMAO! Heartless because I won't give the GOP a pass? Because they can't take the heat, can't stand me calling out their precious republican party for the evil pricks they are? Oh well good riddance, enjoy your stupid and hateful GOP....

Of course we all feel just terrible about the destruction caused by that monster tornado, thankfully the death toll was not larger! But the destruction by Sandy was just as horrific and with even more death and destruction, yet the GOP keep their heads buried up their asses, they will continue fighting aid until the people rise up and fight back! That money is OURS, not the GOP's!!

Go to any website, blog or facebook group written and commented on by Religious Righties and you will see why the GOP doesn't care about this country, our people, our environment, or our future! They believe we have no future, we are just in limbo waiting for the return of Jesus to sweep up the Godly ones, the SAVED ones, so fuck the evil ones and the country, they are waiting on their Lord to set up a new world for the "born againers"...sigh....

Nothing is gonna get done in this country, like bridge and road repair, until we get a Dem super majority in Congress.  Here's the latest bridge collapse, in Washington,  http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/24/us/washington-bridge-collapse/index.html

.President Obama must do all he can legislatively to get infrastructure spending passed, bridges are collapsing, people are driving on crumbling highways, mass transit is a national disgrace!! Spending is at record lows, the deficit is shrinking,  this is the time to spend on infrastructure and put men and women to work! If the GOP doesn't want to help then vote them out!!                        

                                  2014 people, it'll be here before you know it!!

President Obama shows the world why he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize...

Republicans found much to criticize in this historic speech ...which means it was a great speech!